Country Code
Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes (geocodes) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The term ...
: +297
International Call Prefix
An international call prefix, international dial-out code or international direct dial code (IDD code) is a trunk prefix that indicates an international phone call. In the dialling sequence, the prefix precedes the country calling code (and, fur ...
: 00
Telephone numbers in Aruba have country code 297. It is one of the few countries outside Africa to have a country code starting with 2. Before
Aruba seceded from the
Netherlands Antilles in 1986, it was part of the
Netherlands Antilles numbering plan (+599) with phone numbers starting with +599 8. Landline numbers begin with 28, 52 or 58.
Mobile numbers begin with a 56, 59, 64, 73, 74 or 99. Numbers are seven digits long, otherwise in line with the
North American Numbering Plan
The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering plan for twenty-five regions in twenty countries, primarily in North America and the Caribbean. This group is historically known as World Zone 1 and has the international calling ...
, despite not being part of it.
See also
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Telephone numbers in the Netherlands
Telephone numbers in the Netherlands are administered by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation of the Netherlands and may be grouped into three general categories: geographical numbers, non-geographical numbers, and numbers ...
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Telephone numbers in Curaçao and the Caribbean Netherlands 599 9 specifically for Curaçao)International Call Prefix: 00
The country code +599 was assigned to the Netherlands Antilles ( dissolved in 2010), and is now in use by Curaçao and the Caribbean Netherlands (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba).
Aru ...
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Telephone numbers in Sint Maarten (
NANP
The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering plan for twenty-five regions in twenty countries, primarily in North America and the Caribbean. This group is historically known as World Zone 1 and has the international calling ...
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References
Aruba
Communications in Aruba
Telephone numbers
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